Window and door construction



June 4, 9- B. J. GOLDSMITH ET AL 1.716.043 I WINDOW AND DOOR CONSTRUCTION Filed Aug. 28, 1924 Patented June 4, 1929.

UNITED sra'rs TENT curios.-

:BERTRAM J. GOLDSMITH AND EIVIIL KOEB, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNORS, BY.MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE ENGLISH & MERSICK COMPANY, OF NEW HAVEN, CON- NECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

V WINDOW AND DOOR CONSTRUCTION.

Application filed August 28, 1924. Serial No. 734,585.

Our invention relates to window and door constructions in which a vertically slidable window is installed, the invention being particularly adapted. in its application to doors of vehicles, such as closed automobiles.

The principal object of the invention is the production of a simple and compact device which may be installed as a unit in the window well of a door and which shall not only contain means for raising and lowering the window but which shall also carry a check strap to limit the swing of the door on its hinges.

A further object of the invention is the production of device of the character described which shall in addition contain mechanism for retaining the door in closed position.

To the above ends our invention consists in the novel device and parts and combinations of parts thereof hereinafter more particularly described and then specified in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing illustrating a practical embodiment of the invention:

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a part of a vehicle door showing our invention applied thereto.

Fig. 2 is a horizontal section taken therethrough. I

Referring in detail to the several figures of the drawing:

1 indicates the side members of a frame which may be the frame of a vehicle door, while 2 and 3 indicate the stationary side walls or other parts of the vehicle adjacent said frame, one of the side members 1 being hinged to the part 2 as indicated at 4. The side members 1 are provided with suitable guideways 5 in which a window 6 is vertically slidable, said window being either a framed or frameless pane as desired. Secured to the lower edge of the window is a channel 7 as illustrated.

8 indicates a metallic supporting plate or look board which extends horizontally across the frame and which is fastened to both side members 1 by suitable screws as indicated. Said plate is also provided with a vertical flange 9 engaging and screwed to the side of the right-hand side member 1. It is also provided with an upper inwardly projecting flange 10 and a lower inwardly projecting stiffening flange 11. The plate may constitute a portion of the front wall of a window well intowhich the window 6 is slidable, the opposite wall being indicated at 11. The flange 10 is provided with aseries of holes receiving bolts 12 which pass through a window sill or ledge 13, the ends of said bolts being provided with nuts threaded thereon as shown whereby the sill is held to said flange.

14 indicates an escutcheon or bearing mounted on the plate 8 inwhich a rotatable shaft is mounted to one end of which is secured a crank or handle 15 while the other end carries a pinion 16 meshing with a toothed segment 17 secured to a pivoted operating arm 18, pivoted to said plate, the outer end of the operating arm 18 being provided with a roller 19 engaging within the channel 7 on the lower edge of the window. 20 indicates ,a book which is preferably pressed out of the metal of the flange 10 and to which is secured one sist in the raising thereof as it exerts an upward pull of the operating arm 18 on itspivot.

22 indicates a spring steel check strap, a hooked end of which engages within an eye 23 preferably punched out of the metal'of the plate 8, said check strap also passing through a guide 2 1 also punched out of the metal of the plate. The check strap is looped around and downwardly as shown, the lower portion indicated at 25 being slightly looped or curved. The other end of the check strap passes through the opening 26 in the lefthand side member 1 and is non-detachably secured to a removable bracket 27 on the wall 2. This check strap limits the swing of the door on its hinges 4, as is obvious, a stop 28 being provided which is preferably punched out of the metal of the plate 8 and against which the looped portion 25 engages when the door is opened, the suddenness of the jerk on the check strap ordinarily obtaining when the door reaches its open position being thus minimized.

On the right-hand side of the plate 8 we have provided a handle 28, the shank of which is indicated at 29 and passes through suitable slots in the window sill 13 and flange and is pivoted to the plate 8 as illustrated. Said shank engages a flange or projection 30 on a slidable latch bolt 31, the end of which extends through openings in the right-hand side member 1 and vertical flange .9 and is adapted to enter a suitable keeper in the wall 3 to hold the door in closed position. The latch bolt is normally projected forwardly into latching position by a spring 32 which is fastened to the plate 8 and to said latch bolt. To retract the latch bolt to permit the door to be opened it is merely necessary to move the handle 28 against the action of spring 82 as is obvious. If so desired suitable stops 33 may be provided pressed out of the metal of the plate 8 whereby the movement of the handle 28 is limited.

From the above explanation it will be ap parent that the window actuating mechanism, handle 28 and latch bolt and associated parts as well as the check strap 22 carrying the bracket 27 are all mounted on a single J plate and may be shipped and installed as a of a spiral metallic-spring door-check strap having its looped form disposed in the plane of the said door and its opposite ends respectively secured to the same and to the said door-receiving structure.

3. The combination with a swinging door and a stationary door-receiving structure; of a spiral metallic-spring door-check strap 4;. Theoombination with a swinging door and a stationary door-receiving structure; of an assembly-plate carried by the said door; and a spiral metallic-spring door-check strap having its looped form disposed. in the plane of the said door and its opposite ends respectively secured to the said assembly-plate and to the said door-receiving structure.

5. The combination with a swinging door and a stationary door-receiving structure; of an assembly-plate carried by the saiddoor; a spiral metallic-spring door-check strap having its looped form disposed in the plane of the said door and its opposite ends respectively secured to the said assembly-plate and to the said door-receiving structure; and a stop carried by the said assembly-plate and positioned so as to limit the straightening-out of the said spiral metallic-spring door-check strap when the door is swung into its open position.

6. The combination with a swinging door and a stationary door-receiving structure; of a spiral metallic-sp ring door-check strap having its opposite ends respectively secured to the said door and to the said door-receiving structure; and a stop carried by the said door and positioned within the loop of the said spiral metallic-spring door-checkstrap in position to limit the straightening-out of the said spiral metallic-spring door-check strap when the door is swung into its open position.

Signed at New York in the county of New York and State of New York this 27th day of August, A. D. 1924.

BERTRAM J. GOLDSMITH. EMIL KOEB. 

